The voters have recorded their disgust with the revelations of MP’s expenses claims. Good.

The MP’s have betrayed our trust and deserve to be driven out of office. If every MP took the taxpayer for £6,000 the total bill would be around £4million.

This should be contrasted with the bank failures that have lumbered the taxpayers with a bill of around £4trillion. That is a billion times bigger.

Now the MP’s have had their knuckles rapped we should get back to the real problem, the economy. The British government has, over the last 20 years, deregulated the financial system and allowed the most horrendous speculation by the bankers. Now that it has gone horribly wrong the failed bankers have walked away with massive pensions.

The ordinary people are already picking up the bill with very low interest on their savings, massive losses on their investments and pensions and a massive rise in unemployment.